Pat Gillick Quotes
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.
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President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
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I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
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Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
